Word: waltzed
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...feels the extravagant ugliness of contemporary returns to the jungle in modes of dancing must welcome an honest attempt to recover the genuine line of advance by reverting to forms far less aboriginal and admittedly graceful. It is not the barn dances that are wanted at present, but the waltz, polka, quadrille, gavotte, varsovien, etc. And these are not proposed as substitutes for all present modes, but as forms to be interspersed with them. In a well-devised musical program, the architectural music of Bach or Mozart is likely to appear with that of Debussy or Stravinski; the formless needs...
...shortcomings. But no one, except Mr. Ford, is quite so absurd as to suggest a return to the awkward clownish movements of a few years back. The company that performs with Mr. Dunham demonstrates conclusively that barn dances, at least, must never supplant the fox-trot and the new waltz. There have been periods of graceful polished dancing when rhythm and ease and picturesqueness gave color and beauty to the ballroom. But evidently Mr. Ford has never heard of them...
Time came for the first dance. A nine-piece orchestra struck up a fox-trot in the charity ball room; in the diplomatic ballroom an orchestra of strings played a waltz. There was no confusion. The diplomats did not hear a single ribald chuckle of jazz; the charity strutters were not bored by the supplications of fiddle strings. Reporters asked Dr. Heyl questions. Said he: "The partition is made of hair felt, supported by thin boards of sugar-cane fibre, and the musical sounds become tangled and lost in this wilderness of hair and fibre. Hair, fibre and similar pliable...
...Supper Bills would suffer, if he were never to dance Another Step. As matters now stand, I suppose that only the Daughters will suffer. Their Mothers think he dances Divinely and won't hear a Word against him. He is the Only man on the floor who can Waltz...
...program is as follows: Officer of the Day March Sousa Football Songs Harvard Banjo Club Brown Instrumental Clubs Kammenal-Ostrow Polla My Sweetie Turned Me Down Green Gold Coast Orchestra Brown Glee Club Thousand and One Nights Waltz Strauss Harvard Mandolin Club Schneider's Band Secrets Sea Chanties Fair Harvard Harvard Vocal Unit